DOCSLIB.ORG

January 17, 2021 the Inspiration for the Netflix Original Film Starring Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, and Lily James

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
January 17, 2021 the Inspiration for the Netflix Original Film Starring Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, and Lily James LEGALIZE (ALL OF) IT Carl L. Hart’s “Drug Use for Grown-Ups” COLD WARRIORS Rich Cohen on being a Connecticut hockey dad PLUS James Comey, Leonora Carrington and the latest thrillers JANUARY 17, 2021 Here Is The Fire Now By Danez Smith FOR ME, FOR YOU, FOR US, Black historical fic- tion can salt real wounds both fresh and inher- ited. I’ll never forget my mother’s hour of tears after she saw the film adaptation of “The Hate U Give.” Or the row of us waiting stone still in the movie theater, trying to steady our weeping, like a pew at a well-cast funeral, af- ter seeing “Fruitvale Station.” Or my stepfa- ther’s stern shoulders broken down by “Selma”; or the real nightmares of water and THE PROPHETS By Robert Jones Jr. 388 pp. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. $27. scars after “Beloved”; or the movies, books, shows avoided because “I can’t really handle * another slavery thing right now.” 1 Meeting yourself in media is no guarantee that the mirror will be kind or wanted. In- H stead, it’s often a jagged glass you catch your- self in before it catches you. And even when B you know it’s coming, the blood’s still warm and sharp. What of me, of us, was I to witness 1 in “The Prophets,” the debut novel of Robert Jones Jr., set on an antebellum plantation in * Mississippi? I double-checked my wounds before I en- tered Jones’s novel, wanting to be aware of where I was numb and where raw. I wanted to be good to myself and hopefully fair to a book I arrived at with baggage and implications. SIMONE MARTIN-NEWBERRY CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 Book Review JANUARY 17, 2021 THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES Fiction 14 NINE DAYS The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life 1 THE PROPHETS and Win the 1960 Election By Robert Jones Jr. By Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick Reviewed by Danez Smith Reviewed by Raymond Arsenault 7 Thrillers 15 ALL LARA’S WARS Reviewed by Sarah Lyall By Wojciech Jagielski Reviewed by Steven Lee Myers 12 THE REVOLUTION ACCORDING TO RAYMUNDO MATA 22 The Shortlist By Gina Apostol The Pandemic Economy Reviewed by Randy Boyagoda Reviewed by Zachary Karabell 12 THE HEARING TRUMPET By Leonora Carrington Children’s Books Reviewed by Blake Butler 18 GONE TO THE WOODS 15 THE PUSH Surviving a Lost Childhood By Ashley Audrain By Gary Paulsen Reviewed by Claire Martin Reviewed by Jarrett Krosoczka 17 HADES, ARGENTINA 18 WHAT’S THE MATTER, MARLO? By Daniel Loedel By Andrew Arnold Reviewed by Benjamin Nugent BEAR ISLAND By Matthew Cordell 17 THE LIAR’S DICTIONARY Reviewed by Sydney Smith By Eley Williams Bestselling author of A Very English Scandal Reviewed by Patricia T. O’Conner Features “A true-life chronicle that delves Nonfiction 6 By the Book into the secrets of the heart.” Susan Minot — WALL STREET JOURNAL 8 DRUG USE FOR GROWN-UPS Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear By Carl L. Hart 13 Essay Reviewed by Casey Schwartz Listen for the Music “Shimmers with longing By S. Kirk Walsh and regret...beautifully made 9 SAVING JUSTICE Truth, Transparency, and Trust 23 Sketchbook and quite wonderful.” By James Comey By Leanne Shapton and Teddy Blanks Reviewed by Joe Klein — NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 10 I CAME AS A SHADOW Etc. An Autobiography By John Thompson with Jesse Washington 4 New & Noteworthy Reviewed by Jason Zengerle 5 Letters 19 Best-Seller Lists 11 PEE WEES Also available Confessions of a Hockey Parent 19 Editors’ Choice By Rich Cohen 20 Inside the List as an e-book from Reviewed by Mark Rotella 20 Paperback Row Other Press 14 AFTERSHOCKS By Nadia Owusu Reviewed by Fahima Haque OTHER PRESS OTHERPRESS.COM TO SUBSCRIBE to the Book Review by mail, visit nytimes.com/getbookreview or call 1-800-631-2580 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 3 A Special Edition On Sale Now New & Noteworthy HOMO IRREALIS: ESSAYS, by André Aciman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) In this col- lection, the author of “Call Me by Your Name” Uncover and other novels contemplates the life of the imagination, and the ability to hold competing Your Path realities simultaneously in mind. FAUST, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and Frede- to Success rick Turner, with illustrations by Fowzia Ka- rimi. (Deep Vellum, paper, $15.95.) A new translation gives readers occasion to revisit the classic and timeless story of ambition and moral compromise. DISPATCHES FROM THE RACE WAR, by Tim Wise. (City Lights, paper, $17.95.) Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon Martin to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Wise calls to account his fellow white citizens and exhorts them to combat racist power structures. VINELAND REREAD, by Peter Coviello. (Colum- bia University, paper, $20.) Coviello, an Eng- lish professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, argues that Thomas Pynchon’s nov- el “Vineland” is an underrated masterwork of political comedy and humanism. WRITING THE VIRUS, edited by Andrea Scrima and David Dario Winner. (Outpost19 Books, paper, $18.50.) Early in the pandemic, the liter- ary journal StatORec invited writers to de- scribe what they were going through. This an- thology gathers 31 of their responses. WHAT WE’RE READING More than ever, I’ve been using music as a buf- fer, when needed, against the outside world. In that vein, I finally cracked open TESTIMONY, Robbie Robertson’s autobiography. A big fan of the Band, I was eager to learn more about the roots of the group’s singular sound. As history, the book delivers. Sure, there is plenty of Dylan With stories on building the ideal skill set, profiles in leadership and — and the Big Pink section is especially strong — but there is also stirring examples of those who broke the mold, this special edition will lots of great stuff about obscure early episodes and encounters, musical and not, that helps illuminate the origins of songs that help you be a motivator, build results and succeed. made characters like Virgil Caine and Crazy Chester indelible — and illustrate how much hard work was involved. Still, I find Rob- The New York Times Leadership special edition is now available ertson less likable as the book proceeds (granted, likability is not a from your favorite retailer, magazine.store, or Amazon.com key rock ’n’ roll attribute) and sense a creeping defensiveness that is surely tied to his being just one side of the story. Levon Helm tells another in “This Wheel’s on Fire.” That’s next on my list. ©2020 Meredith Corporation. All rights reserved. —ED SHANAHAN, METRO REPORTER AND SENIOR STAFF EDITOR 4 SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021 Letters to this notion when he states that “conservatism is by its nature NEW FROM THE EDITORS OF specific and local,” but stops THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE there. It seems clear to me that Barack Obama, who, even as president, carefully tended to his relationships with his wife and children, attended church regu- larly and allowed his thought- fully considered decisions and opinions to be influenced by the wisdom of others, is a far more conservative man than Donald Trump. Perhaps the most ironic de- SHIVANI PARASNIS basement of the idea of con- servatism is seen through the prism of environmentalism. Exclamation Point liberal democracy expends great What could be more conserva- energy attempting to erode is the tive than the desire to preserve TO THE EDITOR: claimed supremacy of religion, in and protect nature? Even the Too bad W. S. Merwin isn’t particular Christianity; the insu- very terms, conservatism and around to take the other side larity of a community; a sense of conservation, share etymological regarding Elisa Gabbert’s effu- collective intolerance; exclusion; roots. sive praise of “punctuation as a truncated meaning and false superpower and a secret weap- security. All of which stand at the PETER BURWASSER on” in her Jan. 3 On Poetry col- door, rifle in hand, against a more PHILADELPHIA umn. Merwin stopped punctuat- perfect union. Lots to Celebrate ing his poems in 1988. He said SUSAN E. MULLENDORE that he felt that punctuation TUCSON, ARIZ. TO THE EDITOR: “stapled” the language to the ♦ In her Dec. 27 letter to the editor, page. “I think punctuation is Jessica Benjamin writes, “I im- prose. We don’t punctuate our TO THE EDITOR: plore you: Stop featuring celebri- speech, and we don’t punctuate In the second paragraph of his ties in your By the Book column.” when we sing,” Merwin said. review of “Conservatism,” An- I implore you: Don’t stop. Al- “Poetry always has to have one drew Sullivan writes, “A defense though the word “celebrity” has foot in song and in speech.” of the status quo against disrup- over time become associated While I do not agree that all tion comes naturally to anyone with glossy entertainment, it in punctuation ought to be removed truly comfortable in the world.” A fact refers to a person, in any from poetry — periods, commas dozen pages later, in the second field (including writing, by the and a rare exclamation mark are paragraph of her review of Ra- way), who is celebrated. Kurt really all poets need — I do think chel Holmes’s new biography, Vonnegut once argued that writ- that poetry ought not be written “Sylvia Pankhurst,” Francesca ers should emerge from every- with a staple gun. Wade repeats the following quote where, not just literature pro- J.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Women's Experimental Autobiography from Counterculture Comics to Transmedia Storytelling: Staging Encounters Across Time, Space, and Medium
    Women's Experimental Autobiography from Counterculture Comics to Transmedia Storytelling: Staging Encounters Across Time, Space, and Medium Dissertation Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Ohio State University Alexandra Mary Jenkins, M.A. Graduate Program in English The Ohio State University 2014 Dissertation Committee: Jared Gardner, Advisor Sean O’Sullivan Robyn Warhol Copyright by Alexandra Mary Jenkins 2014 Abstract Feminist activism in the United States and Europe during the 1960s and 1970s harnessed radical social thought and used innovative expressive forms in order to disrupt the “grand perspective” espoused by men in every field (Adorno 206). Feminist student activists often put their own female bodies on display to disrupt the disembodied “objective” thinking that still seemed to dominate the academy. The philosopher Theodor Adorno responded to one such action, the “bared breasts incident,” carried out by his radical students in Germany in 1969, in an essay, “Marginalia to Theory and Praxis.” In that essay, he defends himself against the students’ claim that he proved his lack of relevance to contemporary students when he failed to respond to the spectacle of their liberated bodies. He acknowledged that the protest movements seemed to offer thoughtful people a way “out of their self-isolation,” but ultimately, to replace philosophy with bodily spectacle would mean to miss the “infinitely progressive aspect of the separation of theory and praxis” (259, 266). Lisa Yun Lee argues that this separation continues to animate contemporary feminist debates, and that it is worth returning to Adorno’s reasoning, if we wish to understand women’s particular modes of theoretical ii insight in conversation with “grand perspectives” on cultural theory in the twenty-first century.
    [Show full text]
  • Television Sharknados and Twitter Storms
    Television Sharknados and Twitter Storms: Cult Film Fan Practices in the Age of Social Media Branding Stephen William Hay A thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the regulations for the degree of Master of Arts in Media Studies Victoria University of Wellington 2016 Abstract This thesis examines the Syfy channel’s broadcast of the television movie Sharknado and the large number of tweets that were sent about it. Sharknado’s audience engaged in cult film viewing practices that can be understood using paracinema theory. Paracinema engagement with cult films has traditionally taken place in midnight screenings in independent movie theatres and private homes. Syfy’s audience was able to engage in paracinematic activity that included making jokes about Sharknado’s low quality of production and interacting with others who were doing the same through the affordances of Twitter. In an age where branding has become increasingly important, Syfy clearly benefited from all the fan activity around its programming. Critical branding theory argues that the value generated by a business’s brand comes from the labour of consumers. Brand management is mostly about encouraging and managing consumer labour. The online shift of fan practices has created new opportunities for brand managers to subsume the activities of consumers. Cult film audience practices often have an emphasis on creatively and collectively engaging in rituals and activities around a text. These are the precise qualities that brands require from their consumers. Sharknado was produced and marketed by Syfy to invoke the cult film subculture as part of Syfy’s branding strategy.
    [Show full text]
  • PSYC 165) Fall 2012
    Course Syllabus Drugs, Behavior and Society (PSYC 165) Fall 2012 Instructors: John Monterosso TAs: Lectures: Tue & Thur 8:00 – 9:20 pm, SGM Room 124 FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, December 18 4:30-6:30 p.m. {Note that this is late in the final exam period. If you cannot make this date, please do not take this course.} *Minor revisions may be made to the syllabus – when this occurs, a message will be posted on Blackboard. Drug use can be looked at from many perspectives. Although we will consider several, our emphasis will be on a psychological and physiological perspectives. We want you to leave this course with a better understanding of why people use drugs, what effects drugs have on people, and how individuals think about drug use. Besides learning about drugs and their use, we hope you will learn how to critically evaluate scientific research and the benefits (and limitations) of using this research to inform personal choices and public policy. As a Cat 4 GE class, this larger goal is most important. We recognize that use and abuse of drugs is a topic that touches the everyday lives of people, and we hope this will energize the course. However, please do not look to the faculty or TAs for personal and professional opinions or counsel. Information about available resources is on an informational page posted on Blackboard. Readings The primary course text is: Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior. By Carl Hart & Charles Ksir, 2010. McGraw-Hill 14th edition. It is available for Kindle, and there look to be cheaper options to me at Amazon than the bookstore, but I don’t know what the Bookstore buy-back program is (or if there even is one).
    [Show full text]
  • Perspectives on Opioid and Heroin Use in South Central Pennsylvania
    Perspectives on opioid and heroin use in south central Pennsylvania Criminal Justice Trends and initiatives in opioid and heroin abuse: A panel discussion RESEARCH BRIEF The contours of the convened to discuss the issue in 2017-18 Pennsylvania state depth, and to identify current budget (Madej, 2017). problem: Overdose initiatives to address the problem. Narcan is also now widely and death available to citizens over- The panel was comprised of: the-counter. Drug overdoses are the leading Police officers cause of accidental death in the Treatment providers The police officers on the U.S. having surpassed Researchers panel credited equipping shootings and traffic accidents police and other first almost a decade ago (Centers Initiatives responders with Narcan as a for Disease Control and key factor in keeping the opioid overdose death rate Prevention [CDC], 2016). From A key initiative gaining increasing in Pennsylvania from 2014-2015, overdose deaths traction in managing opioid overdose climbing even higher than rose by 11 percent, to 52,404, in Pennsylvania and the greater sixth in the nation, and with roughly 63 percent of region, is the equipping of emergency lauded it as a sort of wonder those deaths involving an medical technicians, police, and other drug. opioid such as heroin, fentanyl, first responders with the opioid or other prescription opioids overdose reversal drug naloxone like Vicodin or Percoset (often (trade name: Narcan), which has been Misconception #1 prescribed legally for routine on the market since 1971. pain management). The Addiction propensity significant increases in drug In 2014, Pennsylvania passed Act overdose deaths were seen While productive discussion 139, which allows first responders ensued, key misconceptions primarily in the northeast, acting at the direction of a health care midwest, and mid-south emerged that were endorsed professional to prescribe Narcan and by several of the panelists.
    [Show full text]
  • INTRODUCTION 1 Ryptic Vault Is a Company That Focuses on Creating Games to Be Played on the Ctable with Others
    INTRODUCTION 1 ryptic Vault is a company that focuses on creating games to be played on the Ctable with others. To achieve this, I had to run through a process that is ever expanding. First, we had to research the market and history of tabletop gaming to see what is trending and what our potential competition are doing. Along the way, questions as well as assumptions and answers to some of those questions were covered and Cryptic Vault began to establish self-identity. This includes goals, stance on the market, logos, and the games that will be produced. This process books showcases this process and helps unravels the secrets that lie ahead for Cryptic Vault’s future. Purpose & Goals Benefits The purpose in making this board The benefits to this project are to game revolves around building a offer a non-digital, more social connection and sharing the experience. engaging game that people can I hope other people have fun with this enjoy with one another. People who game and want to play with others. As playing tabletop games can add a person who enjoys tabletop games, this to their next play session along sometimes it is nice to have fun with with people who may be new to friends without the need of technology playing these types of games. since that has become prevalent in our daily lives. Research Resources First initial way to conduct research The most obvious resources that is to interview friends of mine who are needed is a computer with the engage in tabletop gaming and ask Adobe Suite and a text editor for them what they like to see in a game.
    [Show full text]
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Voleine Amilcar 415
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Voleine Amilcar 415-356-8383 x 244 [email protected] Mary Lugo 770-623-8190 [email protected] Cara White 843-881-1480 [email protected] For downloadable images, visit pbs.org/pressroom/ THE HOUSE I LIVE IN PREMIERES ON INDEPENDENT LENS ON MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013 “I’d hate to imply that it’s your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what — it is.” — Ty Burr, The Boston Globe (San Francisco, CA) — Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In builds a compelling case for the complete failure of America’s war on drugs. For the past forty years, the war on drugs has resulted in more than 45 million arrests, one trillion dollars in government spending, and America’s role as the world’s largest jailer. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available than ever. Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from those on the front lines — from the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge — and offers a penetrating look at the profound human rights implications of America’s longest war. The House I Live In premieres on Independent Lens, hosted by Stanley Tucci, on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 10 PM on PBS (check local listings). The film recognizes drug abuse as a matter of public health, and investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have resulted from framing it as an issue for law enforcement.
    [Show full text]
  • The Drugs of War—Captagon and the Islamic State
    REPORT CRIMINAL JUSTICE The Drugs of War—Captagon and the Islamic State APRIL 15, 2016 — PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE PAGE 1 One perennial challenge of writing about illicit narcotics is the dearth of hard data. While drug-trafficking organizations often maintain scrupulous records of their transactions, they have a pronounced disincentive to open these books to outsiders. And for a variety of reasons, the media, the counterdrug law-enforcement establishment, and elected political leaders all have incentives to overplay the problem. In a dismayingly typical scenario, drug warriors will fill this information vacuum by conjuring up back-of-the-envelope figures, which the press will then gleefully repeat—at which point, the drug warriors will seek a budget increase, citing the press account, which has now accorded their data points the aura of established fact. (This configuration of mutually affirming incentives is sometimes described—by federal bureaucrats who are clear-eyed enough to admit it—as a self- licking ice cream cone.) If there is fog in the drug war, there is more still in the actual armed conflagration that has consumed Syria, which is now entering its fifth year. And the violent fluidity of this conflict makes it all the more difficult to assess a wave of reports over the past several years about the significance of a little pill known as Captagon—an amphetamine that is said to play a significant part in the civil war. According to numerous accounts, Captagon has become immensely popular with the fighters of the Islamic State. According to numerous accounts, Captagon has become immensely popular with the fighters of the Islamic State.
    [Show full text]
  • The History of Star Trek
    The History of Star Trek The original Star Trek was the brainchild of Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991), a US TV producer and scriptwriter. His idea was to make a TV series that combined the futuristic possibilities of science fiction with the drama and excitement of TV westerns (his original title for the series was ‘Wagon Train to the Stars’). Star Trek was first aired on American TV in 1966, and ran for three series. Each episode was a self-contained adventure/mystery, but they were all linked together by the premise of a gigantic spaceship, crewed by a diverse range of people, travelling about the galaxy on a five-year mission ‘to explore new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before’. Although not especially successful it attracted a loyal fan-base, partly male fans that liked the technological and special effects elements of the show. But the show also attracted a large number of female fans, many of whom were drawn to the complex interaction and dynamic between the three main characters, the charismatic but impetuous Captain Kirk (William Shatner), the crotchety old doctor McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and the coldly logical Vulcan science officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy). After the show was cancelled in 1969 the fans conducted a lengthy and ultimately successful campaign to resurrect the franchise. Roddenberry enjoyed success with several motion pictures, including Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); action-thriller Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and the more comic Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
    [Show full text]
  • Exploring Canzone Napoletana and Southern Italian Migration Through Three Lenses
    Exploring Canzone Napoletana and Southern Italian Migration Through Three Lenses John L. Vitale Preamble and Purpose As a first-generation Italian-Canadian, the southern Italian immigrant experience has figured centrally in my upbringing. I have vivid memories of the rich and vibrant conversations that transpired at the dinner table every day. There were countless tales of my parents’ childhood, which included living in impoverished conditions and surviving the devastation of the Second World War. Other common topics of conversation included crossing the Atlantic, being separated from family, and the daily struggles of immigrating to an English-speaking country. At the very core of these conversations, however, was music, particularly the form of popular song that emanated out of Naples in the 19th and 20th centuries, otherwise known as the canzone napoletana. These songs of love, laughter, sorrow, and pain—famous the world over— have always been a genuine and sincere portal into the heart, mind, and soul of the southern Italian immigrant experience in Canada. The purpose of this article is threefold. First, through a biographical lens, this article investigates my own personal experiences as a first-generation Italian-Canadian and explores how post-World War II southern Italian immigrants in Toronto, Canada used the canzone napoletana as a coping mechanism for the daily hardships and struggles of immigrant life. Second, through the lens of the Italian Diaspora, this article investigates how Neapolitan song became the metaphorical voice for the vast majority of southern Italian immigrants around the world. Lastly, through the lens of non-Italians, this article examines how the canzone napoletana influenced non-Italian perceptions about Italy on a global scale.
    [Show full text]
  • BEACH BOOKS: 2013-2014 What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class?
    BEACH BOOKS: 2013-2014 What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class? 8 W. 38TH ST. SUITE 503 | NEW YORK, NY 10018 | 917.551.6770 | WWW.NAS.ORG October 2014 NAS A report by the National Association of Scholars’ Center for the Study of the Curriculum BEACH BOOKS: 2013-2014 What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class? October 2014 NAS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS ASHLEY THORNE MARILEE TURSCAK PETER WOOD With special thanks to Mr. William B. Modahl, the Frankel Family Charitable Trust, Dr. Sylvia Wasson, Mr. Robert H. Crossman, Thomas P. Griesa, U.S. District Judge, Dr. Laurance B. Nilsen, Professor Walter E. Williams, Dr. David Popenoe, Ms. Katherine M. Dahl, Professor Jeffrey B. Russell, and other members of the National Association of Scholars who made this project possible by their generous support. © 2014 National Association of Scholars ABOUT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS Mission The National Association of Scholars is an independent membership association of academics and others working to foster intellectual freedom and to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America’s colleges and universities. The NAS advocates for excellence by encouraging commitment to high intellectual standards, individual merit, institutional integrity, good governance, and sound public policy. What We Do We publish a quarterly journal, Academic Questions, which examines the intellectual controversies and the institutional challenges of contemporary higher education. We publish studies of current higher education policy and practice with the aim of drawing attention to weaknesses and stimulating improvements. Our website presents a daily stream of educated opinion and commentary on higher education and archives our research reports for public access.
    [Show full text]
  • First Class Mail Starfleet
    FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID Burnsville, NC Permit No. 12 FIRST CLASS MAIL STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association STARFLEET is the fan organization with something for everyone. Members are united the world over in their appreciation of Star Trek - the greatest human adventure. Dozens of chapters spread across the world link members into local fandom and the central organization. Annual membership in STARFLEET begins with a package containing a membership card, memo pad, and a listing of chapters throughout he world, including the one nearest you! The membership handbook will introduce you to STARFLEET’s unique infrastructure that offers two membership options. One allows you to be an associate member with no obligation other than receiving membership materials and newsletters. The other option provides a more futuristic atmosphere for the fan intrigued by the fleet structure of Star Trek’s universe. After receiving the membership package a new member will have the opportunity to sign aboard the starship (chapter) of their choice, hold a fictional rank and position and take part in that chapter’s Star Trek related activities and community service projects. Another element of STARFLEET is the annual subscription to the Communique, our bi-monthly newsletter that members receive. The Communique contains current information on STARFLEET operations and chapter activities. There are reviews of STARFLEET activities, lists of upcoming conventions, news and information on Star Trek media and articles on the space program and related areas. When joining or renewing, please send the full page application with your check or money order (U. S.
    [Show full text]
  • Addiction, Neuroscience and Expert Autobiography BIO Suzanne Fraser
    Accepted manuscript version of: Fraser, S. 2015. A Thousand Contradictory Ways: Addiction, Neuroscience, and Expert Autobiography. Contemporary Drug Problems. 42: pp. 38-59. 1 A thousand contradictory ways: Addiction, neuroscience and expert autobiography BIO Suzanne Fraser is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor at the Melbourne office of the National Drug Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Australia. She has published widely on drug issues, health and the body. Her most recent book is Habits: Remaking addiction, 2014, Palgrave (with David Moore and Helen Keane). 2 Abstract Neuroscientific accounts of addiction are gaining increasing influence in health and medical circles. At the same time, a diverse if equally scientifically focused, opposition to addiction neuroscience is emerging. In this struggle over the merits of neuroscience for understanding addiction can be found elements of a uniquely 21st century public engagement with science, one that philosopher Bruno Latour (2013) has identified in the context of climate change. No longer trusted by the public as the unerring source of objective knowledge about the world, science is, at least in some contexts, increasingly treated as just one voice among many. Observing the difficulties this loss of faith in science poses for effective action on climate change, Latour develops a different (‘ecological’) approach to scientific knowledge, one that for the first time allows scientists (and other ‘moderns’) to understand and value it for what it really is, and locate it ‘diplomatically’ alongside other modes of knowing. In this article I ask whether a similar innovation is needed to allow more effective understanding of and action on addiction.
    [Show full text]